Can someone help me here?
Let's say you want a 40%, 30%, 20% (P, C, F) diet. Does that mean you want 40% of the GRAMS of food you eat to come from protien or 40% of the CALORIES you eat to come from protien?
For example, let's say you need a 2300 calorie per day diet. You spit it across 6 meals for 385 calories per meal, and you already know you want 26-30g of protien per meal:
We know that 1g of PROTIEN = 4 cal.; CARB = 4 cal.; FAT = 9 cal.
If you need 26g of protien, and that's supposed to be 40% of your meal -- that means that the total meal size would have to be 65g of food. (65g x .40 = 26g)
By just doing the rest of the math, you come up with the following table:
Per meal:
Calories: 385 needed
Protien: 26g = 100 calories
Carbo: 20g = 80 calories
Fat: 13g = 117 calories
Total: 297 calories
My point is -- if you already know your protien requirement, and your calorie requirement, it seems impossible to make meals match a 40, 30, 20 ratio if your are using GRAMS of protien, carbs, and fat for the ratio. You simply can't make the caloric requirement work!
What am I doing wrong here?
Let's say you want a 40%, 30%, 20% (P, C, F) diet. Does that mean you want 40% of the GRAMS of food you eat to come from protien or 40% of the CALORIES you eat to come from protien?
For example, let's say you need a 2300 calorie per day diet. You spit it across 6 meals for 385 calories per meal, and you already know you want 26-30g of protien per meal:
We know that 1g of PROTIEN = 4 cal.; CARB = 4 cal.; FAT = 9 cal.
If you need 26g of protien, and that's supposed to be 40% of your meal -- that means that the total meal size would have to be 65g of food. (65g x .40 = 26g)
By just doing the rest of the math, you come up with the following table:
Per meal:
Calories: 385 needed
Protien: 26g = 100 calories
Carbo: 20g = 80 calories
Fat: 13g = 117 calories
Total: 297 calories
My point is -- if you already know your protien requirement, and your calorie requirement, it seems impossible to make meals match a 40, 30, 20 ratio if your are using GRAMS of protien, carbs, and fat for the ratio. You simply can't make the caloric requirement work!
What am I doing wrong here?
